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Old Sep 13, 2012 | 01:28 AM
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after a long time i finally removed my trans am engine, its now in the machine shop, the problem for it burning oil was a broken piston, and it needs to be bored to be cleaned, its geting bored .20 over and all new internals, but i need to change the cam and i was wondering if i can use a ls3 cam on it and how would it differ from the stock ls1 cam.
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Old Sep 13, 2012 | 07:14 AM
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you can only hone these engines out to 3,908,about .010 .
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Old Sep 15, 2012 | 10:39 AM
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i dont know much bout engine specs but i know guys that were able to hone there ls1 up to .030 and the guy at the machine shop told me he could easily go .020 over his been working on ls1's for over 10 years now. but idk. well see how it comes out.
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Old Sep 15, 2012 | 12:03 PM
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curious, i've also read that .010 was the max cut on the sleeves.
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